Posts tagged ‘WordPress’

December 6th, 2011

Writers Block? Why not change your blog theme …

by Kevin Holtsberry

If you check this blog regularly, first, God Bless You, and second you probably noticed I changed the theme yet again. I am a theme addict, I admit it. I am always on the quest for the perfect theme (and of course what this entails changes with my moods and ideas). For some reason the last few days I just haven’t felt up to posting reviews and so this is what I occupied my time with.

There was just something about the layout of the last theme that wasn’t quite right. This one allows for more customization and I like the overall style better.

Let me know what you think and I will return to blogging reviews shortly.

April 30th, 2011

PSA: Theme changes

by Kevin Holtsberry

In a seeming case of Murphy’s law just when I had found a theme I really liked I ran into a problem.

The previous theme had the featured post slideshow setup I really liked but I couldn’t get the stats tracking services to work. This might seems like a small price to pay for a nice, and free, theme but it was one of those things that really got under my skin because I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t working.

So I switched back to this theme to verify that the theme was the problem. And sure enough, as soon as I switched to a different theme the stats plugins started tracking traffic again.

Just thought I would make a note of this for informational purposes and in case there were any technical folks reading this who might be interested in helping me solve this problem.

April 10th, 2011

The better is the enemy of the good

by Kevin Holtsberry

The first step is admitting you have a problem, right? OK, I am Kevin Holtsberry and I am obsessed with WordPress themes. I just can’t seem to settle on a theme that I like and that doesn’t eventually bug me to the point of changing it and spending hours trying to figure out what I want to do.

Perceptive regular readers (who knows if I have any of those left) will have noticed I once again have been mucking about with the themes around here.  I had thought to go with a more “magazine” style theme since I posted less often and mostly just reviews and “In the Mail.” Bit for a variety of reason I never really like the theme even though I like the idea of a front page with book covers to tempt you into reading more reviews.

I toyed with using Tumblr to “blog” and offering more formal type reviews here but ultimately decided against that idea. Partly, because the fancy magazine themes require skill with code and images that I lack (and book cover are tall and narrow rather than the short and wide image locations so many seem to feature).

I want to try to write more, and more thoughtfully, and one way to do that is to blog more about what I read – the content as I am reading – rather than just post reviews. So a more traditional blog look would match that focus.

So here we are with yet another theme and layout. FYI, the five latest reviews will scroll across the top while the rest will fall in reverse chronological as befitting a blog.

Sorry for any inconvenience and I hope you like the new layout. Carry on.

*Ten points for the person who names the author of the phrase used for the post title without Google …